97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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Leading with a great quotation from Blaise Pascal, Scott remembers numerous great figures in history – including pioneering female physicians Elizabeth Blackwell and Rebecca Lee Crumpler, plus civil rights leader Rosa Parks, Watergate security guard Frank Willis, and the scientist who developed the Heimlich maneuver. Also: the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the importance of organization in successful social movements.

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